"the future of the station is currently in doubt. Leith is home to Leith Academy, one of the oldest schools in Scotland, and to the Leith School of Art, which along with Glasgow School of Art is one of only two independent art schools in Scotland. Leith is also home to The Queen's former floating Royal residence, The Royal Yacht ""Britannia"", now a five-star visitor attraction and evening events venue permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal. Irvine Welsh had his Channel 4 drama ""Wedding Belles"" (2007) filmed in Henderson Street. Welsh's novel ""Trainspotting"" and its prequel, ""Skagboys"" concern a group of"
"fact set out in a capital 'Z' which is the symbol for Zero Tolerance, a women's rights group based in Scotland. The South African narrative is written in a ""Boys' Own"" style. The sociopathic Francis Begbie, one of the main characters in ""Trainspotting"", makes a cameo appearance. Marabou Stork Nightmares Marabou Stork Nightmares is an experimental novel by Irvine Welsh, and his second novel. The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first person account of the past and a more surreal, stream of consciousness account of an otherworldly present. Like many of Welsh's novels, it is written"
"Acid House"", where the minds of a baby and a drug user swap bodies, or ""The Granton Star Cause"", where God transforms a man into a fly as punishment for wasting his life. Welsh adapted three of the stories for a later film of the same name, in which he also appeared. Welsh's third book (and second novel), ""Marabou Stork Nightmares"", alternates between a grim tale of thugs and schemes in sub-working class Scotland and a hallucinatory adventure tale set in South Africa. Gradually, common themes emerge. His next book, """" (1996), became his most high-profile work since ""Trainspotting"", released"
"Porno (novel) Porno is a novel published in 2002 by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, the sequel to ""Trainspotting"". The book describes the characters of ""Trainspotting"" ten years after the events of the earlier book, as their paths cross again, this time with the pornography business as the backdrop rather than heroin use (although numerous drugs, particularly cocaine are mentioned throughout). A number of characters from ""Glue"" make an appearance as well. This sequel picks up ideas of the film adaptation of ""Trainspotting"". One example is the fact that ""Spud"" has received his share of the drug money, which is shown"
"Wolfboy Wolfboy is a musical with music and lyrics by Leon Parris and book by Russell Labey, based on the play by Brad Fraser. Its story concerns two teenagers committed to an asylum: Bernie has tried to commit suicide and David believes he is a werewolf. The musical addresses psychiatric disorders, abuse, sexuality and loneliness. The original play was staged in Canada; a 1984 production is reported as Keanu Reeves' first stage role. The musical premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2009, and had a 2010 off-West End staging at Trafalgar Studios, in London. The musical was previewed"
"Marabou Stork Nightmares Marabou Stork Nightmares is an experimental novel by Irvine Welsh, and his second novel. The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first person account of the past and a more surreal, stream of consciousness account of an otherworldly present. Like many of Welsh's novels, it is written in Edinburgh Scots dialect. The plot consists of the memories and hallucinations of the protagonist, Roy Strang, making him an extreme example of an unreliable narrator. Roy Strang narrates the book from an (at first) unexplained coma, which he has been in for the previous two years."
"The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins is the ninth novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, published in May 2014. Similarities have been drawn between this book and Welsh's first novel, ""Trainspotting"". Elena Seymenliyska of ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote, ""It's a bit like his debut, ""Trainspotting"" (1993), only instead of the tenements of Leith, we're in the condos of Miami Beach. And in place of heroin addicts, alcoholics and violent psychos, here we have fitness instructors, poseurs – and violent psychos."" ""The Guardian"" published a review of the book on 8 May 2014. In the"
"former punk fan, and although the question of her son's paternity is as good as answered by the end of the book, a possibility remains that Joe Strummer, the late Clash singer, could also have been a candidate. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is the sixth novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It has been compared with Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" and Robert Louis Stevenson's ""The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". Danny Skinner and Brian Kibby both work for Edinburgh's restaurant-inspection team as environmental health"
"of the destruction of industry in the northern cities are drawn for the young working class. His eighth novel, ""The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins"", was published in May 2014. In April 2015 his ninth novel was published via Vintage Books, titled ""A Decent Ride"" and featuring the returning character 'Juice' Terry Lawson (previously from ""Glue""). Welsh's tenth novel, released in April 2016, is titled ""The Blade Artist"", and centres around a seemingly rehabilitated Francis Begbie now living in California with a wife and children. It was shortlisted for the Fiction Book of the Year at Saltire Literary Awards 2016."
"Reheated Cabbage Reheated Cabbage is a collection of short stories by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It was released in the United Kingdom in July 2009. The collection is made up of rare works previously published in magazines and out-of-print anthologies, including a Christmas dinner with ""Trainspotting's"" psychotic Francis Begbie, science fiction tale ""The Rosewell Incident"", and a story following Terry ""Juice"" Lawson in Florida. All of the stories in ""Reheated Cabbage"" with the exception of the novella ""I Am Miami"" had been published in the 1990s in now unavailable media. This story is Welsh's gruesome exposition of a dysfunctional marital"
"Glasgow writers focused around meetings in the house of critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum. Also important in the movement was Peter Kravitz, editor of Polygon Books. Members of the group that would come to prominence as writers included James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard and Aonghas MacNeacail. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Irvine Welsh's ""Trainspotting"" (1993), Warner's ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992) and Kelman's ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994). These works were linked by a sometimes overtly political reaction to Thatcherism that explored marginal"
"Woolf; in ""Postern of Fate"" by Agatha Christie; in ""Pygmalion"" by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, ""My Fair Lady""; in ""Saturday"" and ""Atonement"" by Ian McEwan; in several ""Sherlock Holmes"" stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; in the Saki story ""Reginald on Christmas Presents""; several stories by John Collier; in ""A Room with a View"" by E.M. Forster; in ""The London Eye Mystery"" by Siobhan Dowd; in ""The Late Mr Elvesham"" and ""The Invisible Man"" by H. G. Wells; in ""The Wish House"" by Celia Rees; in the short story ""Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow"" from the book"
"Polygon Books. Members of the group that would come to prominence as writers included James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard and Aonghas MacNeacail. In the 1990s major, prize-winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Irvine Welsh's ""Trainspotting"" (1993), Warner's ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992) and Kelman's ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994). These works were linked by a sometimes overtly political reaction to Thatcherism that explored marginal areas of experience and used vivid vernacular language (including expletives and Scots dialect). Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success"
"in place. The stories are very funny in their black, often cartoonish way. There’s also a degree of zest to the storytelling that leaves more decorous short stories looking pallid by comparison."" Reheated Cabbage Reheated Cabbage is a collection of short stories by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It was released in the United Kingdom in July 2009. The collection is made up of rare works previously published in magazines and out-of-print anthologies, including a Christmas dinner with ""Trainspotting's"" psychotic Francis Begbie, science fiction tale ""The Rosewell Incident"", and a story following Terry ""Juice"" Lawson in Florida. All of the stories"
"culture section a display case that contained a pair of Adidas training shoes and a sweater worn by a Hibs casual in the 1980s. The author Irvine Welsh has included many references to the gang in his works with the most noted being the eponymous story in The Acid House collection and the novel Marabou Stork Nightmares. In ""The Acid House"" Coco Bryce is a Hibs boy who while tripping on LSD is struck by lightning which also strikes an ambulance containing a woman in the process of giving birth. He is transplanted into the baby’s body in which later"
"sociology."" Welsh's novels share characters, giving the feel of a ""shared universe"" within his writing. For example, characters from ""Trainspotting"" make cameo appearances in ""The Acid House"", ""Marabou Stork Nightmares"", ""Ecstasy"", ""Filth"", and slightly larger appearances in ""Glue"", whose characters then appear in ""Porno"". Welsh is known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect. He generally ignores the traditional conventions of literary Scots, used for example by Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Orr. Instead, he transcribes dialects phonetically. Like Alasdair Gray before him, Welsh also experiments with typography. In the book ""Filth"", the"
"The Blade Artist The Blade Artist is a 2016 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. The novel is set in the same universe as ""Trainspotting"", catching up with Begbie's past and present. Begbie, going by the name of Jim Francis, is now a Scottish expatriate artist in California and returns to Scotland for a funeral. His wife Melanie and their two daughters suddenly realize that Jim has a dark past. The novel was reviewed in many newspapers. It received mostly good reviews. In a review for ""The Daily Telegraph"", Orlando Bird called it ""lean, clever and propulsive"". Meanwhile, Hannah McGill"
"and a quick read. Reviewing it for ""The Guardian"", Sarah Diturn suggested the characters were ""unconvincing"". She added, ""As detective fiction it’s shakily assembled, as a horror novel it can’t outpace cinematic torture porn, and as social realism it routinely sends its own plausibility up in smoke."" The Blade Artist The Blade Artist is a 2016 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. The novel is set in the same universe as ""Trainspotting"", catching up with Begbie's past and present. Begbie, going by the name of Jim Francis, is now a Scottish expatriate artist in California and returns to Scotland for"
"A sequel to ""The Blade Artist"", entitled ""Dead Men's Trousers"", was released on 29 March 2018, and sees Mark Renton, Sick Boy, and Spud reuniting with Francis Begbie. As well as fiction, Irvine Welsh has written several stage plays, including ""Headstate"", ""You'll Have Had Your Hole"", and the musical ""Blackpool"", which featured original songs by Vic Godard of the Subway Sect. He co-authored ""Babylon Heights"" with his screen writing partner Dean Cavanagh. The play premiered in San Francisco at the Exit Theatre and made its European première in Dublin, at The Mill Theatre Dundrum, directed by Graham Cantwell. The plot"
"considering the life that led him there. As the action flashes back, the story details “the great battle between the pirates of the world, and the band of merciless men who would purge the seas.” The love story of Damrick Fellows, the pirate hunter, and Jenta Stillmithers, paramour of pirates, unfolds in the telling. Blaggard's Moon Blaggard's Moon is the fourth novel by American author, George Bryan Polivka. It is a prequel to the Trophy Chase Trilogy, featuring one of the trilogy’s minor characters, a sailor turned pirate, Smith Delany. It details his adventures leading up to his signing on"
"Crime (novel) Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, ""Filth"". Ray Lennox is a Detective Inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police who attempts to recover from a mental breakdown induced by stress, cocaine and alcohol abuse and a child murder case in Edinburgh in which he was the lead investigating officer by taking a holiday in Florida with his fiancée, Trudi. The pair meet up with Eddie 'Ginger' Rodgers, one of Lennox's retired former colleagues, and his wife Delores, and they all drink into the early hours of"
"Glue (novel) Glue is a 2001 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. ""Glue"" tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping ""the furious energies of working-class masculinity in the late 20th century, using a compulsive mixture of Lothians dialect, libertarian socialist theory, and an irresistible black humour."" The title refers not to solvent abuse, but the metaphorical glue holding the four friends together through changing times. The four main characters are Terry Lawson (Juice Terry), Billy Birrell"
"were scheduled to appear in the movie. Fellowes' novel ""Snobs"" was published in 2004. It focuses on the social nuances of the upper class and concerns the marriage of an upper middle-class girl to a peer. ""Snobs"" was a ""Sunday Times"" best-seller. In 2009 his novel ""Past Imperfect"" was published. Another ""Sunday Times"" best-seller, it deals with the débutante season of 1968, comparing the world then to the world of 2008. He also wrote, under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville, several romantic novels in the 1970s. A period novel, ""Belgravia"" began broadcast, in 11 weekly episodes, from April 2016 and is"
"outcome of six Super Bowls. ... Meanwhile, [...] with the final chapter still unwritten and the presses scheduled to start rolling in twenty-four hours [...] unless somebody shows up pretty soon with extremely powerful speed, there might not ""be"" a final chapter. About four fingers of king-hell Crank would do the trick, but I am not optimistic. Scottish author Irvine Welsh often portrays drug use in his novels, though in one of his journalism works he comments on how drugs (including amphetamine) have become part of consumerism and how his novels ""Trainspotting"" and ""Porno"" reflect the changes in drug use"
"Steves have toured schools both around Britain, and in other countries including Brazil, China, Qatar, Venezuela, Oman, and Malaysia. They have also been involved with the library services in Britain, and events such as the Northern Children's Book Festivals in 2006 and 2009. Skidmore: Barlow and Skidmore: A series of fantasy adventure books focusing on mythological characters transplanted to the modern age, published by Puffin, reissued by Barn Owl, and later available on iPhone and iPod touch. Titles: ""Stone Me!"" (1995), ""Mind the Door!"" (1996), ""A Touch of Wind!"" (1998), ""Must Fly!"" (1998), ""Don't Look Back"" (2006). The first novel"
"War Boy War Boy is the first novel by Kief Hillsbery, published in 2000 by Rob Weisbach Books, an imprint of William Morrow and Company. Radboy, a fourteen-year-old deaf skateboarder, leaves his abusive home for San Francisco and becomes involved with environmental politics and the underground club scene. Principal characters include Radboy's older friend Jonnyboy, methamphetamine addict boyfriends Finn and Critter, and a Swedish environmentalist, Ula, whose fiance has died, and who is seeking revenge for her sister's injury from a government-planted car bomb. Together the five plan to bomb the Hobart Building and kidnap Jonnyboy's boyfriend Roarke, in an"
"all over North America. In 2011, Digweed's music was featured in the film movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel ""Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy"". He featured among the top ten artists from 1998–2008 and was voted DJ Mag's number 1 one DJ won in 2001. In 2010, he was voted number 29 in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 DJs vote. In 2013, Digweed was ranked the number 17 best DJ in the world in Resident Advisor's top 100 DJ charts; he currently is number 43 as of June 2016. John is the brother of 26 times World Clay Shooting Champion George"
"the ride is fun, sometimes not, and all too often the internal monologue detracts from plot. Still, it is when the narrative pace slows down that we see Hillsbery's best writing, which is often beautiful, rich, and tender."" War Boy War Boy is the first novel by Kief Hillsbery, published in 2000 by Rob Weisbach Books, an imprint of William Morrow and Company. Radboy, a fourteen-year-old deaf skateboarder, leaves his abusive home for San Francisco and becomes involved with environmental politics and the underground club scene. Principal characters include Radboy's older friend Jonnyboy, methamphetamine addict boyfriends Finn and Critter, and"
"the shortlist after ""offending the sensibilities of two judges""). Trainspotting (novel) Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. It takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either Scots, Scottish English or British English, revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the late 1980s and has been described by ""The Sunday Times"" as"
"Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His novel ""Trainspotting"" was made into a film of the same name. His work is characterised by a raw Scots dialect and brutal depiction of Edinburgh life. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films. Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital Edinburgh. He states that he was born in 1958, though, according to the Glasgow police, his birth record is dated around 1951. When he was four, his family moved to Muirhouse,"
"of the plot is ""Vimes subverting the status quo in ways that shouldn't work, but somehow do anyway"". The ""SF Site"" ranked it ""above ""Feet of Clay"" but not quite as good as ""Guards! Guards!"""", considering that ""(t)he story stumbles a bit, especially once the action moves to Klatch, and there are (a) few nitpicky things here and there"", but concluding that it is nonetheless ""a fine addition"" to the Discworld. Jingo (novel) Jingo is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his ""Discworld"" series. It was published in 1997. With the opening of the novel, the"
"Trainspotting (novel) Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. It takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either Scots, Scottish English or British English, revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the late 1980s and has been described by ""The Sunday Times"" as ""the voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and"
"Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in 1980s Leith, Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of petty crime. These works were linked by a reaction to Thatcherism that"